A Woman's Flight Chapter 12

  It was about 18 years since her father died when she first met her husband. She had gone through a lot of healing since her father had last passed away. She had started to actually take control of her life and really find her center and who she was. She had managed to meet some amazing friends that really helped her to get through a lot of the anger and bitterness that she had felt for her father. She was even able to get rid of a lot of her negative feelings toward herself, and was starting to come out of her shell and stop blaming herself for everything that had happened to her. She had decided to leave home for college right after she had graduated from high school.

 Her old town just carried too many memories of her father and she knew that she had to leave if she really wanted to move past a lot of the issues that she was still dealing with. She knew early on that she she wanted to recreate herself into a different person and move past a lot of the small town drama and thinking that had plagued her most of her life. She loved Texas, but there were some things that she didn't agree with either. She never liked the way that she had seen her mother and even her grandmother treat other people. She was a strong believer that everyone deserved an equal chance to prove their worth. She also never liked just how stangnant and close minded the community was as a whole and she knew that if she wanted to better herself; she would have to move. Not to mention Tyler carried way too many old memories of her father that she didn't want to remember any more. Rebecca knew she couldn’t do that if she stayed.

       Her mother was against the idea from the start. After Richard has passed away they had actually become closer. At first Rebecca's resentment got in the way, but over time she started to understand why her mother behaved the way she did toward her father when he would start to attack her and Rebecca. They had even gotten to a really open space with each other and had grown stronger together in a lot of ways . She tried to plead with Rebecca to stay, but Rebecca knew that the town was never meant for her. She was a different person than the people that lived there. Rebecca knew she would never be happy there. She wanted to get as far away as possible. She had applied for some colleges in Texas, but something told her to put in some applications for colleges in California as well. Rebecca knew that she would probably end up having to pay higher out of state fees, but something told her to apply anyway. One of the applications she sent in was to Stanford. She never expected to actually hear back. Within a month she had gotten back an acceptance letter from Stanford University in California.